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W. H. BARNARD & o. E. BEN'BDIGT. ORANGE PEEL SEPARATING AND SHRBDDING MACHINE.

No. 349,075 Patented Sept. 14, 1886.

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VILLIAM I-I. BARNARD AND CHARLES E. BENEDIGT, OF LOS ANGELS, CAL.

ORANGE-PEEL SEPARATING AND SHREDDING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION 'forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,075, dated September. 14, 1886.

Application filed liIayQT,1SS6. Serial Nn.20;!,389.

To all whom, it may concern: v

Beit known that we,\VlLLiAM II. BARNAR and CHARLES E. BENEDICT, citizens of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Orange-Peel Separating and Shredding Machines; and we do hereby declare the following to be a fu-ll, clear, and exact description vof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

In the manufacture of marmalade and other preserves from oranges and kindred fruits, the peel after being removed has generally been thrown away and wasted. This is due to the fact that the peel is mostly composed of a bitter and unwholesome lining or pithy portion. The exterior coating of the peel, when 'properly treated, is nutritious and healthful and can be used as a valuable ingredient for marinalade and other preserves; but as it is integgal with the bitter inside lining and will not peel from the same the expense of separating it by hand and reducing it to shreds has heretofore been too great to make the operation profitable.

The object of our invent-ion is to provide a machine for accomplishing this purpose whereby the nutritious portion of the orange-peel can be separated and reduced to shreds with facility and profit; and to this end our invention consists in the combination of a stand having feeding-rollers mounted thereon, one of which is provided with a pulley, an auxiliary roller, gearing intermediate the main-feedingrollers and the auxiliary roller, a separatingknife, 'a rotary cutter having its axis at right angles to the axes of said feeding-rollers and mounted upon an arbor provided with a pulley, a lower shaft provided with pulleys, a crank-shaft carrying a pulley, and intermediate bands operating over said pulleys, all arranged and adapted to operate in the manner and for the purpose more fullydescribedhereinafter, and pointed out in the claim.

Figure l is a top view of our complete machine; Fig. 2, a side elevation; Fig. 8, an end elevation; Fig. 4., a detailview of the feedingrollers in cross-section through line X X of Fig. l, illustrating a piece of peel passing be- (No model.)

`.tween the rollers and the knife separating thepithy portion, and Fig. 5 a view of one ofthe blades of the rotary cutter detached from the cutter-head; Fig. (i, a detail view illustrating the knives in the act ot' shredding an orangepeel.

Like letters represent like parts throughout the several views.

To construct our machine, we provide astand or frame, A, having a top, B, upon which is mounted a pair of rollers,O C. These rollers are provided with adjustable bearings D, confined within housings E, and adjusted by means of set-screws F.

b is a separating-knife secured to the top of the stand by means of screws a, and having its cutting-edge placed just in front of the adjacent portion of the peripheries of the feedingrollers O and C. Just in front of said rollers C C' there is an auxiliary feeding-roller, G, having a corrugated or toothed surface. Said roller is mounted in stationary bearings H, attached to housings E. A rotary cutter eonsisting of a cutter-head, h, provided with radial cutting-blades I, is keyed to the-end of arbor K, journaled in stationary bearings J,.

secured to the top of the stand. rIlhe radial blades I are separate and independent of cach other, and are removably secured at one end only to the cutter-head h by means of bolts i, their free ends being made to taper like the ordinary scissors-blade. Said rotary cutter is arranged to revolve in a direction at right angles to the axes of the feeding-rollers G,C,and G, as shown by arrows in Fig. 3.

The whole .mechanism is operated by means of a hand-crank, L, attached to a shaft, M, journaled in hangers w, and carrying apulley, N,whieh imparts motion to a main horizontal shaft,0, by means of a cross-belt, I, operatingl over pulley Z. Said main shaft O is provided with a grooved pulley, It, and another larger pulley, Q. The grooved pulley R communicates motion to the feeding rollers G C through the medium of endless belt S, passing over another grooved pulley,V, upon the end ofthe feeding-roller C. The larger pulley, Q, communicates motion to the rotary "cutter through the medium of another endless belt working over pulley U ,keyed to shaft. K. XV is a metal kniteplate,wl1ich is secured to IOO the top ofthe stand alongside the separatingblade by means of the screws a. This plate has a sharp corner with which the edges of the revolving knives are adapted to come in frietional contact in the operation of cutting the peel into shreds.

Itis not essential that the knife-plate be made independent ofthe separating-blade, as the body ofthe latter could be extended back and made to serve the same purpose.

The roller C is provided with agear-wheel, `n, which operates the auxiliary feeding-roller (i by meshing with a smaller gear-wheel, n', upon the end thereof.

Guides f1 q upon the top ofthe stand form a feeding-trough, r, for the reception ofthe orangepecl.

lu operating onl' machine the crank L is turned i'othelcft, and the cross belt l?, working over pulleys N Z, turns the shaft Oto the right and revolves the cutting-blades in the saine direction through the medium of belt T operating over pulley Q and U. The orange` rind is placed with its pithy side down inthe trough r, and is fed ilatwise to the feedingrollers C C', between which it passes,and as it emerges upon the opposite side from between the rollers it comes in contact with the sharp edge of the horizontal separating-knife, which removes the pithy part from the upper coating. Said coating is then carried forward by the assistance of the auxiliary rollei` (l to the revolving knives Lwhich reduce it to shreds, as shown in Figs. 4 and 6.

It is evident that the details of construction of our device can be varied in many ways which mightsnggest themselves to a skilled mechanic. Therefore we do not limit ourselves to the precise construction herein shown, but feel entitled to such variations as come within the scope of our invention.

XVe do not herein broadly claim the feedingrollers in combination with a selmrating-knile and rotary cutter; but

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Ina peel separating and shredding machine, the combination of a stand, A, having feedingrollers mounted thereon, one of which is pro vided with a pulley, an auxiliary roller, (l, gearing intermediate the main feeding-rollers aud the auxiliary roller, a separatingknife, b, a rotary cutter having its axis at right augles to the axes of said feeding-rollers, and

mounted upon an arbor, K., provided with a n 

